Measure to ban fracking seems dead for session

11:24 PM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Written by

Duane W. Gang
Gannett Tennessee

Bans on fracking and mountaintop mining in Tennessee appear dead for the year.

Three measures before state lawmakers aimed at adding those protections for Tennessee's natural resources failed to make it out of the Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee March 12.

"I can't say I am really surprised by the vote. But I think they are important enough issues to keep talking about," said state Sen. Lowe Finney, D-Jackson, the sponsor of the bills. ...